The UK’s Guardian just released the “world exclusive international teaser trailer” for the film adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.

We can’t post it here, since it is a world exclusive and all, so link here to view it.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson, it stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Ciaran Hinds. It is scheduled to open in the US on Nov. 18 of this year (it releases earlier in the UK).

Penguin recently re-released the paperback, featuring the words “Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture” on the cover.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carre Retail Price: $16.00 Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2011-06-07) ISBN / EAN: 0143119788 / 9780143119784

War Horse, the play based on the book by Michael Morpurgo (Scholastic, 2007), is currently a hit on Broadway. Coming Dec. 28th is the movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg.

As the schedule stands now, Spielberg will be going up against another Spielberg movie, the 3-D animated film, The Adventures of TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which opens Dec. 23 (see our story, with tie-ins).

The first teaser trailer has just arrived:

The tie-in is coming in November:

War Horse (Movie Cover)
Michael Morpurgo
Retail Price: $12.99
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Press – (2011-11-01)
ISBN / EAN: 0545403359 / 9780545403351

Official Movie Site: WarHorseMovie.com

Coming to theaters on August 12 is the adaptation of the mega-best seller, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Einhorn/Penguin). Below are a behind-the-scenes video, the trailer and the tie-in, which releases tomorrow.

Behind the scenes:

The trailer:

The tie-in:

The Help (Movie Tie-In) Kathryn Stockett Retail Price: $16.00 Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade – (2011-06-28) ISBN / EAN: 0425245136 / 9780425245132

Expecting a Movie Version

The movie blogs are atwitter over a Deadline report that Jennifer Lopez is in talks for a supporting role in the adaptation of the pregnancy manual, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, (Workman). Already in the cast are Cameron Diaz and Matthew Morrison. Directed by Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee, Everybody’s Fine), it is planned for release on May 11, 2012.

How do you turn a manual into a movie? The producers have said that it will be like the film of He’s Just Not That In to You (which didn’t share much with the book other than the title and a basic concept). It will follow several couples as they prepare for childbirth and is set to begin shooting in August.

Lopez is also in talks to star in Parker, a film based on the Donald Westlake novels (Jason Stratham will be playing the lead; Lopez is considering the role of his love interest) and  directed by Taylor Hackford. Parker has already been  portrayed  by Mel Gibson in Payback and Lee Marvin in Point Blank.

The second trailer for the final Harry Potter film, HP and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two, appeared on the Web late Thursday. The movie opens on July 15th.

Causing even more excitement among Potterites is a mysterious new J.K. Rowling Web site that appeared on Wednesday, Pottermore. It links to a YouTube page, with a countdown clock to a Rowling “announcement” on June 23 at 7:00 a.m., Eastern. The Bookseller, the UK’s book publishing trade magazine, quotes a Rowling spokesperson, who crushes hopes by saying, “It is not another Harry Potter book but we cannot reveal any more at this stage, fans will have to keep an eye on the website. It will be launching soon.”

Scholastic has announced not just one, but three movie tie-in titles for The Hunger Games, coming in February (the movie releases March 23, 2012). In addition to reissuing the book itself, taking a page from the Twilight tie-in playbook, they will publish an illustrated movie companion. The third book, The World of Hunger Games, has not yet been described.

In addition, a slipcased “collectors edition” of The Hunger Games will come out in November, in time for holiday gift-giving.

The movie, directed by Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit), stars Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, the upcoming X-Men: First Class) as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are Alright) as Peeta Mellark, and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) as Katniss’s hunting partner Gale Hawthorne. It is expected to the the first of a series.

Tie-ins:

The Hunger Games: Movie Tie-In Edition ($12.99, February 2012, ISBN: 9780545425117),

The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion ($18.99, February 2012, ISBN: 9780545422901)

The World of The Hunger Games ($17.99, February 2012; ISBN: 9780545422901)

Below is the first trailer for the movie based on Micheal Lewis’s book about the Oakland A’s, Moneyball. It opens on 9/13/11.

Does it feel a little like The Social Network? Aaron Sorkin worked on the screenplay for each.

The tie-in releases 8/15/11 (9780393338393).

It may be a while before Lasse Hallstrom get around to directing the adaptation of this summer’s big Swedish noir title, The Hypnotist. (FSG, 6/21). He has just committed to directing a film based on Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Haven (he directed 2010’s Dear John, also based on a Sparks novel).

In addition to Dear John, several other Sparks novels have been made into movies; The Notebook, The Last Song and Nights in Rodanthe.

Production is expected to begin this year.

Jason Reitman, who was nominated for an Academy award for the George Clooney movie, Up in the Air, is directing an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s  Labor Day, (Morrow, 2009).

Entertainment Weekly just announced that Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin will star. It is expected to begin shooting in New England in 2012.

Despite Harlan Coben’s best-selling status, only one of his books has made it to the big screen. Tell No One, (Delacorte, 2001), was adapted as a 2006 French thriller directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Francois Cluzet and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Now that book is getting a second, Hollywood version. Ben Affleck has just signed to direct an English-language version. It will be a while before it hits screens, however; Affleck is currently directing Argo, planned for release in 2013.

Below is the trailer for the French film:

The adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z (Crown, 2006) has been in the works for a long time, hampered by a $125 million production budget. With new financing, production has begun and  filming will begin in August in Glasgow, Scotland, which is being transformed into a Zombie war-torn Philadelphia. Brad Pitt is starring, along with Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale. In talks to join the cast are Ed Harris and Matthew Fox. The director is Marc Foster.

Pitt also stars in Moneyball, based on the book about major league baseball by Michael Lewis (Norton, 2003; tie-in edition, 9780393338393), to be released 9/23 this year. He just finished filming  Cogan’s Trade, based on the novel by George V. Higgins, (Knopf, 2004), to be released some time next year.

The announcement that Tom Cruise is working on a deal to play Jack Reacher in the film adaptation of One Shot (Delacorte, 2005), the ninth book in the series by Lee Child, has the movie blogs going nuts (Reacher is described in the books as 6’5″ and 250 lbs).

The movie site Deadline quotes Lee Child himself on the subject, “Reacher’s size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way.”

One Shot is the ninth novel in the  Reacher series. The next title, #17 in the series is The Affair, (Delacorte, 9/27).

Congratulations to Lisa See; her book Dreams of Joy debuted on the 6/19 NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list at #1. It is the sequel to Shanghai Girls, which was on the NYT list in paperback for 23 weeks, reaching a high of #22.

It’s quite a summer for See; the movie based on her novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, directed by Wayne Wan, opens July 15.

Movie tie-in:

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) Lisa See Retail Price: $15.00 Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks – (2011-05-31) ISBN / EAN: 0812982711 / 9780812982718

The Harry Potter cast have finally flown Hogwarts and are working on new projects. Emma Watson is currently filming the adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. She is shown at left, with a copy of the YA novel. Co-star Logran Lerman has been sending out Twitpics from the set (via MovieLine.com)

They are joined by a strong cast that includes Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, Kate Walsh, Mae Whitman and Johnny Simmons. They are directed by Stephen Chbosky from his own novel (MTV Books, 1999).

It is expected to be in theaters next year.

In case you missed it on Sunday’s MTV movie awards (or subsequently on the Web — on YouTube, it’s had over 3.5 million hits), below is the trailer for Breaking Dawn, Part 1 which premiered on the show. The movie arrives on Nov. 18